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Moscow, to Turn Tables, Holds Hearings on U.S. Ills

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Alan Cullison

Updated Oct. 22, 2012 7:36 p.m. ET

MOSCOW—Russia, chafing at Western criticism of its top-down political system, fired back Monday with parliamentary hearings meant to expose a litany of problems in the U.S. that lawmakers said made the Washington unfit to lecture other countries about human rights.

Moscow also said it would order the country's top electoral chief—whom Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called a "magician" for his work in Russian elections during...